Word: bloomings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Landscapers said yesterday that the new arrivals include a wide range of trees and shrubs which will bloom within the next several months: red maples, honey locus, madasequoia, swamp white oaks and dogwood magnolias...
VR.5 is the real standout among these new series in part because it does not succumb to campiness. The show revolves around the treacherous cyber-exploits of Sydney Bloom (Lori Singer), an emotionally deadened young woman who can travel through her computer into a virtual universe in which she can tap into the minds of other people. A genius in a T shirt and Timberlands, Sydney has devised this technology herself, but she cannot control the environments she enters. As a result, she often finds herself in peril. Neverthe-less, she is unable to stay in the real world...
...East regional, while Tennessee downed Florida A&M and Florida International in the Mideast.) Says Mel Greenberg, a sportswriter for the Philadelphia Inquirer who is generally considered the authority on women's basketball: "I liken the game to a beautiful flower that is only now coming into bloom. Heck, when I first started covering the girls in 1976, 50 was a big crowd at UConn...
...Degas. The results fill one gallery of the Met's show, and they are works of distinction: a drawing like Marynka Smoking, 1980, is an homage to Degas's bathers that hits a fine balance between the energy of the black bounding line-wiry, emphatic-and the crusty soft bloom of light on the model's back and buttocks. Kitaj is a greedy, sexy draftsman, even when he is not drawing women. And his prehensile take on the world through drawing gives his fantasies and allegories a strength that no mere montage of photographic quotation could supply...
...deities--the right to make a statement unsupported by any sort of evidence or argument. In short, a heavenly pronouncement. What could be more arrogant and wrong-headed? It is this sort of pronouncement--unsupported by any pretense of argument--which speakers such as Camille Paglia and Harold Bloom make. It is this type of thoughtless statement which leaves thoughtful observers unwilling to take such people seriously...